How did sports reflect the different social
classes in late 19c Western Europe?

Why did Western Europeans have
more leisure time by the end of the 19c? How did they spend that
additional leisure time?

What jobs would most women hold outside
the home in the late 19c? How did they fare in the workplace
compared to men?

What were some of the significant changes made in
women's employment by the 1880s? Why were these changes helpful
to the women's movement?

What were the prevailing views regarding
women's roles, status, etc., in 19c society? How were these
views beginning to change?

Why was there so much variety in
artistic style by the middle of the 19c?

How did the various art
movements of the mid- to late-19c reflect the social/political
tensions between the individual and society? How were they an
expression of the new political/scientific ideas of the times?

How did Realism differ from Romanticism? How did it reflect
the economic and social realities of Europe in the mid-19c?

How did Impressionism/Post-Impressionism represent an artistic
revolution?

Evaluate the following statement:

In the late 19c,
never had the artist and society been so far apart.

Assignment #4

Sources:

textbook: mid-pg. 758 to mid-pg. 766.

PowerPoint: "The
1905 Russian Revolution."

Questions:

What immediate problems confronted France after her loss in
the Franco-Prussian War? How were these problems resolved?

Why did right-wing conservatives fail to
establish a monarchy in France after 1870?

What did the
communards really represent to many Europeans?

Identify the
major scandals/crises that challenged the new Third French Republic.

Why was the Dreyfus Affair the "O. J." Trial of the late 19c?

Identify Italian Prime
Minister Francesco Crispi's policies. How did they divide the
country?

How did Prime Minister Giovanni Giolitti introduce
limited liberal programs into Italy in the early 20c?

What were
the personal and political weaknesses of Tsar Nicholas II?

Why
did Russia loose the Russo-Japanese War? What were the long-term
results for each country?

Regarding the Russian Revolution
of 1905:
- Identify the major political groups that agitated for change.
- What were the causes of this revolution?
- What was "Bloody Sunday?" How was it a turning point for the
Russian monarchy?
- What reforms did Nicholas II propose?
- What was the October Manifesto? How did the liberals and the
socialists and revolutionaries
react to its proposals?

How did the Fundamental Laws limit the
power of the Tsars? What was Nicholas II's response?